The Importance Of Language

People use spoken language every day, which makes it quintessentially human. They use it for communication, which can occur verbally, written, or in gestures. As simple as it may seem, language is complex. It contains numerous sound systems that allow people to use distinct words. However, man is not born knowing any language. Babies have to learn how to speak, as they grow. Children acquire their first language through relating pre-existing notions with language. Furthermore, they could also learn from nothing and work their way up in discovering what is and is not characterized in language. Various factors affect how children acquire language. These include social relations and cognitive growth (Seidenberg and Joanisse, 1998). In language acquisition, one of the hugest mysteries involves the innate mechanisms children possess in order to get started. A key question is whether children have built-in structures and linguistic classes that allow them to learn how to speak. However, most physicians suggest that nurture plays a larger role compared to nature. A child learning a language is more complex than him or her learning how to walk. This is because languages are complex. The child has to learn

A research by Stockwell and van der Lely indicates that children with SLI cannot use syntactic principles regulating anaphoric references. For example, ‘Tom says that Mary is watching herself’ and ‘Tom says that Mary is watching him’. In the first sentence, the word ‘himself’ can only refer to Mary and not Tom while in the latter ‘him’ cannot refer to Mary, but it can optionally reflect to Tom. According to the generative theory¸ there are a set of principles that govern such constructions. The results of the study revealed that grammatical deficits are not only limited to morphological challenges (van der Lely and Harris,